Fr. Robert Barron's video refers to the following:

• Daniel Dennett's op-ed piece "The Bright Stuff" (New York Times, 2003/7/12), in which he supported the Brights movement;

• John G. Messerly's article "Religion's smart-people problem: The shaky intellectual foundations of absolute faith" (Salon, 2014/12/21); and

• Charts from "What Do Philosophers Believe?" (pdf) by David Bourget and David J. Chalmers (2013/11/30), which give very basic information about the degree to which 1,972 professional philosophers agreed on "thirty central philosophical issues" when asked in a survey, and how those answers correlated to their specializations.

Surprisingly, Fr. Barron is not convinced by Messerly's argument. Here are his points (I'll flesh this out later):

• Atheists don't realize that God exists outside of any testable reality.
• Philosophers who specialize in the Philosophy of Religion are more likely to
• If an atheist gets chairmanship of a philosophy department, only atheists will get tenure, publish papers, etc.
• Philosophy, like literature and poetry, doesn't improve over time like science:
  • Robert Frost wasn't better than Dante or Homer.
  • Modern playwrights aren't better than Shakespeare.
  • Michel Foucault wasn't better than Kant, Hegel, Aristotle or Plato.
  • Therefore, earlier philosophers were probably better than current philosophers.
  • Earlier philosophers were predominantly theists, God exists.

Apparently (to paraphrase Barry Goldwater), intellectual dishonesty in defense of theism is no vice.